The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-06-08

tion in Europe. by migrating to this country. So
cured
THE BLESSINGS OF LIBERTY
for themselves and their posterity; It Is the
FIRST and most powerful right OF freemen. more
potent than violence and more certain than
force.
not yet performed. and that is that in States
where IL 10 ascertained that free and orderly
elections for Senators and Representatives In
Congress can not be had, Congress should
assert and exercise its unquestioned power
TO regulate the times, places, and manner OF
holding such elections. This power 10 as
clearly conferred upon Congress as the
power TO levy taxes on make war, and, In my
Judgment. the time has arrived when II
should be fully and vigorously exercised. This
power has been asserted by the act OF 1856
providing for the election Of Senators, and
no complaint has ever been made Of its con-
stitutionality or expediency. IL has not been
exercised as 10 members OF the House OF
Representatives, from the strong desire to
avoid any Interference with popular cleo
tons in the States but the existence OF the
power has been affirmed by the supreme
Court OF the United States in the case OK parte
Marlborough and others, decided at the October
term, 1888, in which the court said
That government whose essential charac.
ter is republican,. whose executive head ana
legislative body are both elective, whose most
numerous and powerful branch OF the Legisla-
ture is elected by the people directly, has no
power by appropriate laws To secure this cleo
ton from the influence of violence and corrup-
as to attract attention and command gravest
consideration. II this Government is anything
more than mere aggregation OF delegated
agents OF other states and governments IL must
have the power 70 protect the elections ON
which it's existence depends from violence ana
corruption"
In the latter days OF the Roman republic the
controlling elements in elections were bribery,
force and corruption, and this was the cause
of its fall So in ours, IN
ELECTIONS ARE CONTROLLED
by the meanest frauds and crimes, instead OF
the popular will, il wAl be the end Of free gov
eminent The mission OF the Republican party
will never end until every legal voter can cast
one honest VOTE and no more, and have that
vote counted.
1 do not wish TO utter one word to revive the
animosities OF the war. That was fought out
manfully and bravely by the two contending
parties with such courage as TO inspire the re-
spect OF each side for the other, and TO its ogi-
cal conclusion Of the complete success of the
Union cause. All that l ask is that the de-
feated party will honorably fulfill the terms Of
their surrender and that the results of the war
may be respected and observed with honor by
COME derates, and firmly, but with charity and
kindness, by Union soldiers and citizens. For
this / appeal alike to Confederate and Union
soldiers, TO the blue and the gray, SO that when
passion and prejudice disappear, both sides
Will stand by each other in the Improvement
and development Of our great and united coun-
try.
!. nd this, fellow citizens, brings me to the
vital controlling difference between the two
beginning Of the Government one theory tended
to belittle, degrade. and lesson the authority of
the National Union. 1t favored strict con-
struction OF the Constitution il construed it
like an indictment or penal bond, every doubt
was to be resolved against it, To them Ii was Il
contract which any state might throw of at its
pleasure. They called this
THE RIGHT OF SECESSION.
They called this government confederacy
The Democratic party in later years fell under
the absolute dominion of this theory When
they undertook in 1861 to put their theories in
practice, they expressly called their government
IA Confederate government, and by their constitu'
tionthey made slavery and the right of seces-
sion their corner stones, with Jefferson Davis nc
their chief.
The opposite theory was that the governme mt
formed by our fathers was National Govern
ment, that the constitution was an indissoluble
bond OF union, defining the powers OF the gov
eminent to be construed literally, so to
carry into effect the purposes OF its trainers :;
that this was an ordinance, not OF the states
but of the people. TO promote more perfect
Union to preserve the blessings OF liberty for
themselves and their posterity. They were
Unonists they believed in the growth and
strength and power of the Republic. The Re-
publican party is the representative of this
theory. 1t marshalled the Union forces for the
preservation of the Union, and against seces-
sion. 1t preserved the Union. But for il the
American Republic would have been thing Of
the past For twenty-four years il admins
tered the executive branch OF the government
on these ideas. 1t was this that enabled the
States the inestimablo benefits OF national
currency, the homestead policy, the protection
and diversity OF our industries, the vast extern
sion of our railroads and internal improve
ments. 1t is this marked difference between
the two parties that lies ut the foundation OF all
questions of public policy.
The future opens before US an infinite va
riety of questions which will turn on the extent
of National authority. The revenues must be
reduced.
THIS THE REPUBLICAN PARTY DID
q zN..NT.
lected for repeal reduction taxes on home
production and duties articles that did
not compete with home industry. We added
to the free lists; made free from all duty
more than one-third in value OF all the ar
ticles of merchandise imported from foreign
countries, including all articles in common
use among our people which could not be
produced here, including tea and coffee. We
levied "A duty on the remaining two-thirds suffi-
cient TO raise all the revenue needed, almost
exclusively on articles that competed with home
products In this way we 80 protected our in
dustry that nearly every article Of common use
on the farm, in the workshop or the household
is made in this country. Nearly all the articles,
except sugar, from which this large revenue is
derived, are articles of luxury mainly con-
sumed by the rich. protective duty has been
placed ON sugar for the benefit of the sugar
planters of Louisiana, but We now propose, as
one means of reducing the surplus revenue, to
largely reduce this tax, and as n protection TO
sugar growers some propose to pay out OF the
duties on sugar n bounty for the home produc-
sorghum. This policy OF protection has
been extended TO the products Of the farm, the
yield Of the mines, as well as the fabrics Of the
mechanic and the manufacturer. In this way
the levying OF taxes is made the means Of ma
tional growth and development nearly trebling
in twenty years our domestic manufactures
and ut the same time by competition reducin
the prices
But by the Confederate construction of the
Constitution all this is unconstitutional BY
their theory we may impose bnrdens but can.
not confer benefits.
And now fellow citizens, the immediate re-
suit of Democratic or Confederate ascendency
is TO be a struggle to break down our industrial
system. They now propose
TO REDUCE THE DUTIES
on articles that we can and do now produce,
and thus bring our skilled artisans into compe-
titon with foreign labor that will inevitably
reduce the price OF domestic labor. The farmer
with wool duty free must either kill his sheen
or reduce the price of his wool, and so with
every article OF domestic production. But even
on this policy they cannot agree. With exclu.
sive power over revenue bills they can agree
upon no proposition for the reduction of taxes,
while surplus revenue drawn from the life
blood of the people accumulates in the
Treasury. But in the end the Confederate idea
will, as usual, prevail in that party
Randall will resist but he will learn the
same lesson so many Democrats before him
have learned. The Confederate constitution de-
clared in so many words that no duties or taxes
on importations from foreign nations shall be
laid to promote or foster any branch of indus
try, and that is the creed OF the Democratic